The Accountant

2016

ActionCrimeDrama

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Synopsis

Christian Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.

Christian Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by allstarrunner9 / 10

John Wick meets Good Will Hunting

It's as if John Wick is the savant janitor from Good Will Hunting, and
surprisingly, it worked.What should you expect? It has flashes of John Wick action, but it most
certainly isn't an all out action movie, however, it also isn't
primarily a drama focusing on his autistic/accounting side of things; I
felt they did a really good job of combining both elements into a movie
that swings back and forth between the two.I thought the acting was great all around; I found the plot solid and
enjoyable. Here is the bottom line: Yes, this movie is worth your money to see in
the theater. p.s. I'll be the first to admit I have no idea how autism really
affects people and how accurate it is or is not portrayed in this
movie; I saw this movie as nothing more than what it is: a fictional
story to entertain.

Reviewed by twilightasm159 / 10

Best Film of the Year so far.

This film connected with me on so many levels. It delivered in ways I
was not expecting. I was laughing, cheering, crying, and ultimately
walked out of that theater feeling more than satisfied. I want to go
see it again. Something that is great about this film is that there are
things you will pick up on more clearly through a second viewing, but
it is not required to fully enjoy the film. Like I said in my title, I
can say without a shadow of doubt that this film is better than any
other film released this year. However, I will follow that by saying I
have yet to see "Hell or High Water". So it's more like 99.9% sure. We
will see how it holds up against the remaining anticipated releases. I
do honestly believe it should be nominated come award season. This film
is phenomenal and if you do not see this film before you die, you are
doing yourself a disservice.

Reviewed by jdesando9 / 10

It's entertaining and smart.

A thriller should be entertaining and smart, both of which The
Accountant is. Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is not Christian in the
traditional sense, but he is a wolf of a hunter, about as accurate as
anyone behind a telescopic gun barrel could be.Yet he's a brilliant accountant at the same time, thank you, autism: He
has a savant's grasp of facts and numbers (think Dustin Hoffman in Rain
Man) but a serious deficiency in the affective and communicative
categories. Affleck plays him with a grasp of disaffection that is
almost humorous, in fact is with some of his straight-arrow responses:
"I don't guess," he says when queried if he had a hunch about the
perpetrator of a fraud.You see, he is hired by all kinds of wealthy and criminal business
people and governments to uncook their books or whatever is necessary
to discover fraud or put the books in order. These jobs lead to
situations where he is wanted by bad guys or the IRS or whomever.
Wolff's legitimate, current job for a robotics company is complicated
enough for him to need several glass walls to write on (think Affleck's
buddy Mark Damon in Good Will Hunting), taking in hours what would
consume days for a host of professional accountants. And so it goes according to the thriller formula that the bad guys will
be on his trail, and he will be made vulnerable by a cute co-worker,
Dana (Anna Kendrick), who has some of his math savvy and maybe a bit of
sweet for him. The Accountant veers from formula because that romance
is of the "chaste-and-from-afar" kind, almost but not quite at the kiss
stage. It's pleasant not to be bothered by heavy sex when the
complications are of the cerebral, themselves the core of pleasure in
this brainy, but not too, action drama.Unfortunately our autistic hero, trained by a merciless military father
to defend himself because dad knew son would always be treated as
different, slips into thriller stereotype, e.g. Christian puts down too
many hired guns at one time, albeit in the service of a noble
retaliation for a prison friend. Although the action is within the
parameters of the genre, it here feels overdone given the cerebral
contexts that otherwise provide plenty of thrills.One of the joys of this film is to see Affleck show some acting chops;
he may never be like Dustin Hoffman, but he's memorably stoic here, a
long way from J.Lo and Gigli.

Reviewed by parleon-thedon9 / 10

The Accountant - review: Intellectual & Ferocious

Gavin O'Connor, the director of my favorite movie Warrior. Ben Affleck,
the once ridiculed but now stupendous entertainer. J.K. Simmons, the
distinguished actor from Whiplash. Jon Bernthal, the rising star from
The Walking Dead who's a known but yet still unknown actor, and he's
great by the way. John Lithgow, an actor who delivers uncanny
especially when he's the villain. Bill Dubuque, who the hell is this
guy, but he wrote this movie, and this appears to be his first major
project besides Robert Downey Jr's The Judge. I enjoy all of these
people's work one way or another. This movie has a good director, good
leading man, and an all-star cast. From the trailers, this movie seemed
like an intellectual movie about a young boy growing up with mental
problems, the boy grows up and becomes an accountant, through his work
he does business with shady characters, for some reason his clients
want him dead, but we know The Accountant is far more capable of much
more than they know. I was anticipating this movie based on all the
information I just provided. I thought this movie couldn't miss. Is The
Accountant a good movie? The Accountant is a good movie.The direction of this seems rather simple, but as the story progresses,
things become a bit too complicated, and maybe not for the better. I understood the main story and what was happening. The subplot of the
movie is what threw me off. I thought the secondary plot was a bit
messy but yet still engaging.The acting in this movie was excellent. I think Ben Affleck as Christan
Wolff is the best character he's ever played. Affleck's performance is
both engaging and mesmerizing. Everyone does their job here, but
Affleck steals the show.The violence feels ultra realistic. I love action movies, but none have
felt as real as this in a long time. When The Accountant kills people,
he kills people, and it's not pretty.There's a lot of jump cutting that's present here. This movie
constantly jumps from the past to the present without warning, but the
transitions are fluid.The execution of the story at times feels tedious due to its consistent
jump cutting, multi-layered plot, and abundance of characters.Each character gets their moment, and everyone plays a part, but it's
the coincidence that brings them all together.I think this movie is trying to be more than what it is, and it
succeeds. The Accountant movie has a multi-layered engaging main plot
about mental illness in young children and how they cope with their
situations. The secondary plot is about The Accountant doing business
with the wrong people. There's another plot to this movie with J.K
Simmons and his story's compelling, but it lacks conviction.Overall, I enjoyed this movie. The fight scenes and choreography were
breathtaking. The main plot was engaging. Ben Affleck delivered the
best performance of his career. Every actor played their part. This
movie suffers from sensory overload, but regardless, I believe that it
will stimulate not only intellectuals but white-knuckled action junkies
as well. The main plot, Ben Affleck, and the violence is ferocious.Final Grade: A-